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Monday Sep 09, 2013

We’ve asked another Intern from the ECEMEA Internship
Programme to share his thoughts with us. It’s Ahmad’s turn to tell us what he
thinks of life@Oracle after being with us for 6 months now as a Sales Intern.
Read on for his experiences.

“Hi everyone! My name is Ahmad, I’ve joined the Sales Team
at Oracle Kuwait and I am willing to share with you my impressions in working
for one of the world’s most rewarding IT corporations. During my first few
months at Oracle in everyday collaboration with high-qualified professionals,
I’ve met many fantastic people who are both ambitious and helpful, thus I have
a lot of satisfaction from working in this great innovations company...

Friday Jul 19, 2013

Hi everyone! My name is Michał and I’ve recently joined the Presales
Security Team at Oracle Poland where I take part in the ECEMEA Internship
Program. I want to share with you my first impressions with regard working at
Oracle, as well as the skills which, in my opinion, are essential for those who
want to work in this company.

I’m still an undergraduate student of Warsaw School of
Economics where I study Finance and Accounting.As I am on the second year of my bachelor studies, it was a great
achievement for me to become part of my Presales Security team.
Security is
becoming ever more important nowadays as new regulations (both international
and internal) are to be introduced soon...

Friday Jul 12, 2013

For this week, we have interviewed one of our interns in
Nigeria about his first number of weeks at Oracle and how students can maximize
their chances of being hired into a position in our company.

Hi everybody! My name is Darlington, I’m an intern here in
Oracle Nigeria and my current role is as a Sales Intern in the Technology
General Business sector. I went to St. Murumba College School and I completed
my CCNA in 2005.I was then admitted
into the University of Jos where I studied Computer Science and graduated in
2010.

My first week in Oracle was really awesome; it wasn’t what I
really expected because the staff here were so friendly and open to always
offer assistance to someone who needed help...

Tuesday Jul 02, 2013

This week, we’d like to introduce you to two of our ECEMEA
Interns, Adam and Hanadi. They’re based in different countries and are part of
different teams; however they both have the same enthusiasm in being an Intern
at Oracle.

“Hi!I’m Adam
(Bachelor of Accounting Science & CIMA Diploma in Management Accounting), a
member of the Oracle Applications Pre-sales team in Johannesburg, South
Africa.Joining Oracle has been a truly
inspiring experience thus far.My first
week at Oracle has been one of insight and learning.I have had the opportunity to meet and
interact with industry leading software solution professionals....

Monday Jun 17, 2013

Hi! My name is Essam and I am an intern in the Middleware
Tech Pre-sales team. I graduated from the King Saud University in Saudi Arabia,
Software Engineering Department.The
first few weeks at Oracle were really good, I met a lot of new people and this
helped me see that life as an employee is different from the university.I wasn’t expecting all employees and managers
to be as helpful as they were.Even
though they have their own work, responsibilities and deadlines to meet, they
always stop to listen and help.

For students to maximize their chances of being accepted to
an Oracle program, I think they should know more about the products and the
core business of the company...

Friday May 31, 2013

My name is Paul and I hold a Bachelor’s Degree Computer
Science from Covenant University, Ogun State, Nigeria.

I work with the Technology Pre-sales team here at Oracle
Nigeria and I’m currently enjoying the challenges it provides. I get the
opportunity to learn, and keep myself updated, with new technologies and
discuss them with team members and my manager which provides me the unique
opportunity of sharing and refining ideas...

Friday May 24, 2013

Hi! My name is Shahd and I am a Sales Intern at Oracle Saudi
Arabia. I hold a Bachelor Degree in Information Systems from Prince Sultan
University and I have joined the ECEMEA Intern Program in the Core technology
Sales team for the Public Sector.

2.How were
the first few weeks @Oracle?

The first number of weeks was filled with excitement as I
was mainly discovering the place and meeting a lot of people who were kind
enough to give some of their valuable time to sit with me and help me with my
questions...

Friday May 17, 2013

My name is Duduzile, I’m a young South African woman fresh
out of varsity and I studied Bcom Finance at the University of Johannesburg. I
am currently an intern at Oracle in the Pre-Sales Applications Business Unit.

2. How were the first few weeks @Oracle?

My first week at Oracle was exciting and nerve nerve
wracking at the same time. Exciting because it was great to be part of such a
prestigious company and nerve wracking because it was a new experience and a
new environment with new people. Fortunately Oracle did not make us feel like
new interns who knew nothing, but instead they made us feel like family and
welcomed us with open arms so the nervousness didn’t last for long...

Monday May 06, 2013

I had the opportunity to attend this Concours de Negociation
in Deauville in 2013 and have to say that this event was a great experience.

We had the chance to present ORACLEto a large group of
graduates from prestigious schools motivated to work for ORACLE and we realize
that a large group of students were interested in pursuing a career in sales in
IT.

The second day was dedicated to the sales simulations where 22 candidates demonstrated their sales skills and we finally found 7
outstanding candidates.

Friday May 03, 2013

My name is Ahmad. I hold a Bachelors Degree in Computer
Science and I graduated from the Gulf University for Science and Technology
(GUST) in Fall 2010. I was lucky to be selected for the Oracle inter program
and I started my career here in March 2013 as a Sales Intern looking after
Oracle Technologies.

How were the first few weeks @Oracle?

Oracle was always an company I aspired to work for. During
the first few days I was introduced to the amazing professionals working here
and got an insight into the company’s valuable products. This made me more and more keen to learn
about the company and products, this is on top of the extremely high level of
support that have from the teams and managers. Honestly, I am very grateful for this opportunity and I know I will
learn so much from the time I have here.

Wednesday May 01, 2013

As I sit here on level 7, Tower B at Oracle’s Australian headquarters in North Ryde, I reflect on the journey that has been the past 10 months since joining Oracle. To me Oracle did have its familiarity – coming from an IT Recruitment background I would meet candidates that specialised in technologies like Primavera, Hyperion, Java, MYSQL, JD Edwards, Sun, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Taleo.. Little did I know that I would one day work for the IT conglomerate that would own them all.

Who is Oracle? ‘A database company’ – as I’ve heard it many times before. But Oracle is so much more than just a Database company. Oracle is truly a leader in IT innovation – hardware and software, engineered to work together. Reducing the complexity, simplifying IT. Over 9,000 products, with over 2,000 patents. 32,000 developers, running over 300,000+ test scripts nightly. 6,500 customer-driven enhancements yearly. 1 million+ students supported and over 20,000 implementation consultants. Not to mention being ranked #1 in 40 product or product and industry categories with over 380,000 customers in 145 countries and over 100,000+ employees...

Friday Apr 26, 2013

Hi! I’m Sabra from the Sultanate of Oman.I have a Bachelor Degree in Internet and
E-Security from the Higher College of Technology which is considered one of the
most beautiful colleges in the world. I graduated from this course on December
25th 2012 and a couple of months later I started my internship at Oracle!I’m a Sales Intern and I’m part of the
Technology Sales team.It’s been a great
feeling to finish my Degree and be onboard already finding myself learning
about Oracle technologies!

2. How were the first weeks @Oracle?

I enjoyed every minute of my first few days as my new
colleagues made me feel very welcomed. It is highly important to have your
peers’ support as you’re in the early phase of your career and don’t have much
experience with the business environment.

From the very first day at Oracle I came to the conclusion
that the corporate life is very different from what we think of it when we are
students...

Wednesday Apr 24, 2013

Hello! My name is Roy and I have been working as a Technology Presales Consultant for almost a year now in the Oracle EMEA Presales Centre (EPC) in Málaga. In this article I will briefly outline my background and how I found my way to Oracle. I will also attempt to explain exactly what the EPC is and what makes working for the EPC so exciting.

Working in the EPC gives me the opportunity to work in a
truly international environment. Whilst I am assigned to the German market, so
far I have spent time working for the Spanish, UK, German, Swiss, Belgian and
Dutch field teams. I liaise with my Romanian and Indian colleagues on a daily basis and I work with the engineering and product management teams in the US, providing feedback on the latest product releases. I (try to) speak Spanish on the way into work and use English in the office with my colleagues who are French, German, Polish, Russian, English, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Swedish and Spanish, I then speak either Dutch, German or English with the field teams...

Wednesday Apr 17, 2013

Hi, my name is Robert! I recently joined the Sales Consulting team at Oracle Poland to be their new consultant on Big Data and Oracle Big Data Appliance. I’m still an undergraduate student at Warsaw School of Economics where I study Quantitative Methods in Economics and Information Systems but my young age wasn’t a problem for Oracle to give me a chance to work on one of its most promising innovations.

It’s especially fascinating for me as the subject of Big Data is amazingly thrilling. Processing Big Data (vast amounts of unstructured data such as blog entries, sensor information, tweets or pictures from the Internet) opens many new ways for enterprises to derive great value and make better decisions. As a technology enthusiast and a business school student it has always been my dream to be apart of such innovations, and that’s why I applied for the internship program here at Oracle. I’m sure it was a perfect decision.

Thursday Feb 28, 2013

This month, Cristian, North America Presales Manager will give you an insight into what his team does and how you can become part of it.

It is important to mention from the start that in Oracle the Presales term is an umbrella that covers more different specialisations. It starts with Enterprise Architects that know both Oracle products and client business needs and are able to recommend the best overall solutions. It continues with Product Specialists that knows in detail a couple of related products and are able to present their capabilities to the client. It ends with Pre-Sales Support teams that don’t interact with external clients but goes even deeper on a technical path.

There are several different Oracle Presales Centers spread across Europe, Middle East and Africathat provide support to the Sales Representatives from different parts of the world. The North America Shared Services department is based in Romania and we may say that it is a technical support department, responsible for the more difficult questions and configurations that appear during the sales process.

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